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Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Voting Rights Legislation

March 20, 2015

By Aubrey Koski March 20, 2015       Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of president Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 speech urging Congress to enact voting rights legislation.   President Johnson’s speech, delivered before Congress on March 15, 1965, culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the nation’s hallmark Civil Rights legislative […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Bloody Sunday, Civil Rights, Lyndon B. Johnson, Lynn Adelman, MARCH 20 2015, MARCH 6 2015, VOL. 25 NO. 10, Voting Rights, Voting Rights Act VRA, Wade Henderson

Anniversary of Selma March Rekindles Ferguson Comparisons

March 13, 2015

By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press March 13, 2015   In this March 13, 1965 file photo, a line of police officers hold back demonstrators who attempted to march to the courthouse in Selma, Ala. Police kept the demonstrators hemmed up in a square block area where they attempted several times to break through. (AP […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Anniversary, Black Lives Matter, Bloody Sunday, Civil Rights, Ferguson MO, MARCH 13 2015, Selma March, Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC, VOL. 25 NO. 9, Voting Rights Act VRA



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